Return to 1981 and start from breaking off the engagement

Chapter 8 Xiaohua wants to go to school

While a few people were chatting and laughing, the hare had already been cleaned up. Zhang Xiaobin took the initiative to take on the stew work, while the other five people sat in the room smoking and chatting.

After the rabbit meat was stewed, the six people sat at the table and started eating and drinking.

"Brothers, don't ask. I just want to treat you to a drink today. I have no other intention!"

Yao Weijun looked at these former good buddies with deep emotion in his heart, but he still continued firmly:

"In addition, I want to announce something. This commander has officially sealed his seal and will no longer be your commander. As for why, I will tell you after I have straightened things out. Then I will recruit the team again. , Let’s do something big together!”

"Okay, you should be busy with your own affairs first. I don't blame you!" Heizi stopped Xinbo who was about to ask more questions and continued:

"But let's talk about it first. Our brothers are poor, maybe a little poor, but they are all men with their faces facing outward. No matter whose family the girl belongs to, if her family dares to take you seriously, they will not take it seriously." , Just say it, brother, I won’t tolerate him!”

"Yes, I'll give you Commander Yao a job, brother, I won't give up!"

"..."

Yao Weijun was speechless, "You guys broke up, didn't you..."

"Ah, right, right, that's not the case. Okay, don't say it's useless, just drink!"

Well, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a few guys.

The six people chatted with great enthusiasm, ate meat and drank wine, and the atmosphere was extremely warm and joyful.

They drank until about eleven o'clock in the evening, and then they dispersed.

After everyone else left, Yao Weijun chatted with Zhang Xiaobin for more than ten minutes and returned home.

Now the fourth brother is still in school, and he is the only one living in the west wing.

I quietly entered the house in the dark, and was about to get on the kang to sleep when I vaguely heard someone pushing the door open and coming out of the room with a separate door on the far east side of the main house.

Taking advantage of the moonlight outside, Yao Weijun saw his second sister-in-law walking towards the dining tent through the crack of the window.

"I went to the dining room in the middle of the night...yes, I was designated to find food for Li Wen and Li Wu."

Yao Weijun shook his head and smiled, and didn't pay much attention. He lay down and gradually fell asleep.

Early the next morning.

He was just waking up from his nap when he heard his grandma shouting in the yard.

"What time is it? You are still sleeping! Did I say there was a burglar in this house or was there a rat attack? All the remaining bacon was taken away. Boss, everyone, please come out and see what happened. what happened!"

Following grandma's shout, the whole family came to the yard one after another.

"It's so early in the morning. It's so funny to yell in the courtyard. Why are you still standing there? Drag the old lady back to the house!"

Father Yao Xiangui frowned and gave his wife a shove.

"Mom, if you have something to say, go home and say it. It won't be good for the neighbors to hear."

The mother was also a little embarrassed and pulled the old lady into the house in a low voice.

Yao Weijun couldn't continue lying on the kang, so he went out and followed him to the main room.

Snapped!
Grandma put the empty plate hard on the table and glanced at the whole family with a sullen face.

Finally, he glared at the second sister-in-law, and then said: "The remaining bacon was gone overnight. Let's talk about it. Who got up at night and ate it secretly?"

The whole family was silent for a moment. The elder sister-in-law silently combed her daughter's hair, while the second brother rubbed his eyes with his hands, not daring to look directly into the grandmother's eyes. The second sister-in-law lowered her head to arrange the clothes on her two sons, and no expression could be seen.

When his father, Yao Xiangui, saw that no one answered, he coughed and said, "If you want to eat from now on, just let me know in advance. It's not a big deal if we are all members of the same family. Your grandma is old and if she gets angry, that's a big deal." Son!"

"I know, Dad." The second sister-in-law was the first to respond with a smile and her head raised.Yao Weijun saw a hint of pride in her smile and was speechless.

In this family, since the eldest brother passed away, the second brother and sister-in-law have always been the parents' hope for support in their old age. Usually, when the fourth brother is not at home, he is particularly partial to the second brother and his family.

Obviously, the father also guessed that the second brother's family took the last bacon in the middle of the night, so he deliberately exposed it in front of grandma, making it a trivial matter and explaining it away with a few words.

Yao Weijun pondered slightly, but did not tell his face what he saw last night, because he saw that his grandma did not want to pursue the matter after his father expressed his stance.

Had dinner in the morning.

The second sister-in-law sent her two sons to school, while the eldest sister-in-law's Xiaohua was leaning alone at the door of the courtyard, watching eagerly with a look of envy on her face.

"Xiaohua, do you want to go to school?"

Yao Weijun had nothing to do, so he walked up and asked with a smile.

"Yeah!" Xiaohua nodded vigorously.

"Well, after the autumn harvest, I will go to school to register you." Yao Weijun leaned down, touched Xiaohua's head, and said warmly.

Who would have guessed.

After he said this, Xiaohua's eye circles suddenly turned red, and she pursed her lips tightly for fear of crying.

"Don't bother, I signed you up for school, why are you still pouting?"

Yao Weijun frowned.

"My mother didn't let me go to school. She said... she didn't have money to pay the tuition. I said I would earn work points by mowing the grass, so she beat me. She also said... she also said not to let grandpa know."

Xiaohua wiped her eyes hard and lowered her head.

"..." Yao Weijun picked up her little hand and saw the calluses on it, and the blood blisters in some places had not yet gone down.

In his previous life, he knew that his parents had not been interested in seeing his sister-in-law and his daughter since the death of his eldest brother. However, he only went out to play all day long and didn't pay much attention to them.

This poor niece is obviously ten years old, one year older than the eldest son of the second sister-in-law's family, Liwen, but she has never gone to school.

This is not because the sister-in-law does not allow her daughter to go to school. It is obviously because her parents do not agree, and the sister-in-law has no money, so she can only take all the responsibility on herself.

"Xiaohua, Uncle Wu promises you that in just these two days, I will make you carry your schoolbag and go to school just like Li Wen and Li Wu!"

Yao Weijun said seriously.

After hearing this, Xiaohua wiped her tears even more frequently, but a smile full of expectation appeared on her face.

After coaxing Xiao Hua for a while, Yao Weijun heard the voices of his father and his second brother talking in the yard, so he got up and walked out of the house and went straight to the threshing floor.

It was even less possible for him to work in the fields today, as he still had a lot of things waiting for him.

The one hundred kilograms of peanuts need to be roasted, and then I will go to the commune in the afternoon and go to the school to find a teacher to handle Xiaohua's enrollment.

Now that most of September has passed, school has already started. It may be a little troublesome to enroll Xiaohua, but Yao Weijun decided that no matter what difficulties he encountered, he must handle schooling for his niece.

He still has more than 15 yuan in money, and Xiaohua's tuition is only one or two yuan. At most, he can just spend some money to buy some gifts for the principal.

When they arrived at the threshing floor, the educated youths had already gone to work in the fields. Shunzi and others had enjoyed hunting yesterday and were now playing with the shotguns in pairs, loading gunpowder, adding iron sand, wiping the barrels, and inspecting the forts.

"Commander Yao is gone, just wait for our triumphant return, haha..."

"Wait a minute, Shunzi!" Yao Weijun called to Shunzi.

The latter understood immediately, took Yao Weijun's cigarette, turned around and ran back to the village.

(End of this chapter)